Jane Elliott Leaves White Audience Speechless

[ItsjustMe]

[erronis]

1. This is a question each of us should ask ourselves every day. Would we want to be another

type of person in this society?

I think this is more than race or skin color or ethnicity.

Gender and variants are another facet, and mutable.

Language, education, class, physical abilities, age, ... The list is huge. And every day we should be open to interacting and respecting people (and animals!) that have differences from us.

My life feels richer when I've done that. And I've made some amazing friends and learned a lot more about the world than my small life would have allowed me to do.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

2. Thank you. Have followed her for years. Harry Belafonte on the 50th

..anniversary of MLK,Jr's association..said this in an interview with PBS, "to realize Martin Luther King Jr's dream, white America needs to change course.." Video and transcript at 5:51 mark @ link




https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBu4BxRUnqao&ved=2ahUKEwjI9NfAop_5AhWfLEQIHezeA7oQwqsBegQIAxAF&usg=AOvVaw21sNKLK7z0gDwnRElAXTOw

[Mr.Bill]

3. Chris Rock version

is when he said in his act that "not one white person in this room would change places with me, and I'm rich!"

[Gore1FL]

4. I was introduced to her work when I was in elementary school

It was the 1970s. I lived in a diversifying area. My teachers dove right into it with her blue-eye experiment. I probably saw that same film projected 6 times before I graduated High School.

She is an amazing woman. I am glad she is still at it.

[ashredux]

5. People in Florida schools will certainly never see it there

[onecaliberal]

6. K&R

[Joinfortmill]

7. Powerful

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. She is absolutely incredible.

I would love to meet her.

I don't think about my White Privilege as often as I probably should. Over the course of my lifetime (I'm 73) I have had a very few Black friends. I did go out of my way a while back to become friends with a black woman, the mother of one of my son's classmates. I'm so glad of that friendship. Alas, when she moved to the East Coast to care for her aging parents, she made it clear she was cutting of contact with me. I'm very sorry for that.

[Lonestarblue]

9. Excellent question! I cannot know what it is like to walk in a black person's shoes, but

I can imagine the fear, the anger, and the heartbreak of just existing in our society. I am sorry that we as a country have not reached an acceptance that we are all human and skin color just does not matter. What matters is what is in one’s heart and brain and decency toward others.

[2naSalit]

10. She never was one to...

Pull punches and she hits hard with effect. I don't remember when I first heard of her but it was long before college. In college, she and her work were discussed at length in one class that I recall. I'm glad to see she is alive, well and still at it in imaginative ways.